FrameThrower · Actors · Shaun Toub
Shaun Toub
3 films · 305 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2004–2016
Born 6 April 1963 · Tehran, Iran
Shaun Toub is an Iranian-American film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Farhad in the 2004 movie Crash, as Rahim Khan in the movie The Kite Runner, and as Yinsen in the film adaptation of the Iron Man comic book series.
Toub, who is of Persian Jewish background, was born in Tehran, Iran and raised in Manchester, England (his family left Iran before the 1979 revolution). At the age of fourteen, he moved to Switzerland and after a two year stay, he crossed the Atlantic to Nashua, New Hampshire to finish his last year of high school.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 305 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Shaun takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 50% of their frames are day, 49% natural — the look of the work Shaun takes.
Time of day
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 305 frames from Shaun Toub's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.